By Dan Leroy June 16, 2005

The most impressive thing about Cowboy Troy's major-label debut is what it took to make a black country-rapper feasible. Hip-hop, the great assimilationist art, had to become the dominant musical form. A long line of experiments, from Charlie Daniels's spoken-word songs to Timbaland's hoedowns with Bubba Sparxxx, had to lay the groundwork for this collision of marketing-savvy genres. It still... More >>>

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They may not bounce it in Harlem, but Cowboy Troy's
Loco Motive is a sturdy bridge across a cultural
chasm.